Routledge Handbook on Consumption

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Cover Title Copyright Contents List of figures and tables List of contributors Preface 1 Consumption research revisited: Charting of the territory and introducing the handbook Part I Theoretical and methodological perspectives on consumption 2 Consumer culture theory 3 Studying consumption through the lens of practice 4 Methods and methods’ debates within consumption research 5 Ruminations on the current state of consumer ethnography Part II Consumers and markets: Introduction 6 Marketing and consumer research: An uneasy relationship 7 Consumers and brands: How consumers co-create 8 From production and consumption to prosumption: A personal journey and its larger context 9 Collaborative consumption and sharing economies 10 Crises and consumption Part III Global challenges in consumption: Introduction 11 Consumption in the web of local and global relations of dominance and belonging 12 China – the emerging consumer power 13 Consumption in Brazil – the field of new consumer studies and the phenomenon of the “new middle classes” 14 Russia: Postsocialist consumer culture 15 Bridging North/South divides through consumer driven networks Part IV Politics and policies of consumption: Introduction 16 Political consumption – citizenship and consumerism 17 Food labelling as a response to political consumption: Effects and contradictions 18 Consumption policies within different theoretical frameworks 19 Citizen-consumers: Consumer protection and empowerment 20 Practice change and interventions into consumers’ everyday lives 21 Behaviorally informed consumer policy: Research and policy for “humans” Part V Consumption and social divisions: Introduction 22 Poverty, financing and social exclusion in consumption research 23 Poverty and food (in)security 24 Materiality, migration and cultural diversity 25 Gender, sexuality and consumption 26 Children as consumers 27 Youth and generations in consumption 28 Aging and consumption Part VI Contested consumption: Introduction 29 Sustainable consumption and changing practices 30 Structural conditions for and against sustainable ways of consuming 31 Retail sector facing the challenge of sustainable consumption 32 Sexual embodiment and consumption 33 Taste and embodied practice 34 Health, bodies and active leisure Part VII Culture, media and consumption: Introduction 35 Consumption of culture and lifestyles 36 Consumption of leisure 37 Fashion in consumer culture 38 Luxury consumption and luxury brands: Past, present, and future 39 Social media consumer as digital avatar 40 Digital consumption Index